Archived Posts: December 2006-May 2015

A
couple of evenings ago I read the kids a story from The Friend about a little girl who decided to donate her favorite
doll to a relief effort for families displaced by a wildfire. As I do at the
end of these stories, I asked the kids if they could think of a connection
between the story and their own lives.

Savannah
mentioned how hard it was to give up one of her coats that winter in Jordan
when it snowed really hard and we had gathered some supplies to take to the Gypsies
who lived in tents near our home.

“Good
connection,” I said to Savannah. “Grace, can you think of connection to your
life?”

Grace
thought for a moment and then recounted that once her friend who was “really,
really rich,” had some stick-on earrings that Grace liked. “And when I told her
that I was poor, she just . . . gave me the earrings!”